Construction of this site started spring 1999 with hallicrafters gallery. In the spring 2001 I wanted to extend my gallery with more radio brands, and started Vintage Radio Galleries April 8th 2001 containing most ham related radio brands. The established hallicrafters gallery was put as one of 30 galleries under Vintage Radio Galleries. Vintage Radio Galleries - is the "table of content".

Per 15.05.2001 Vintage Radio Galleries has 943 photos in Hallicrafters Gallery and 191 photos in the other galleries. The number of HTML files to manage this information on the net is more than 330. The texteditor used for making the HTML files is EditPad, an improved type of NotePad editor.

Needless to say I am very grateful to Al Waller K3KTJ the owner of QSL net who is providing all the webspace these pages and photos take.

Please excuse that the site isn't finished in a flash, but finished it will be. Well not 100% finished, it will never be, but if you compare to Hallicrafters gallery which took 2 years from the start to what it is today - Vintage Radio Galleries is in its birth.

The first days after April 8th 2001 were spent in finding radio logos. Everything were put out at net immediately in the state they were, and a little by little it will all be polished to the propriate quality. The logos will be restaurated, and there will be slight experimenting with the formats. The format today is fine I feel, but I am looking for a general vintage radio background not neccesarily connected with hallicrafters. I intend also to build up a short historical description of each radio brand, and am continously searching the net for this information. I would say - give time to September 2001 - then the content will start to look like something.

Radio collectors - with a heart glowing of interest for vintage radio - will probably have comments to expand and organize "Vintage Radio Galleries" further different. There are some major radio brands lacking, but they will be considered one or another way. For excample Drake. I have no intension to do a Drake photo gallery, there are too many serious webpages of those. Instead I will put up link pages to Drake and similar major vintage radio brands.

Legend

Each radio gallery - or radio brand - has its own state of development. hallicrafters gallery is the most developed since it started spring 1999. The other radio galleries started spring 2001. To make it easier for the reader, each gallery entry has a number or sign associated to it. Letter L mean that a Link page is available for the specific radio brand. The Link page contain information such as links references, manual references and/or reference to the specific radio brand history. Just press the radio logo at the main Vintage Radio Galleries page or the LINK button on the specific radio page and you will get right into the Link page.

Read Me!

You have done it by now! But there are many files, and maybe you forgot some details? Try the link under "updated" on the main Vintage Radio Galleries page. By pressing "Updated" - you will see the Vintage Radio Galleries update log, showing cronologically all updating of the web-site, except for hallicrafters gallery which has a separate more than 400 item long update log. The update log is also some kind of paste-indicator for my activity at the web-site.